academia Archive

  • Finding My Path to Motherhood

    –by Ginger C. Hanson, PhD As a genXer, growing up in an active LDS family, I struggled with the seemingly contradictory messages I heard about the role of women in society. My parents and church leaders encouraged me to pursue an education. The messages I […]

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  • Parenthood Juggle: I Have to Be Me

    In the next few weeks, I will turn 40. I know it is very cliché to have a mid-life crisis at 40, but apparently there is something to it. I guess I have been moving toward this moment from the moment I was born, but […]

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  • Babies and Grad School

    Today’s guest post is written by Caitlin. My first week of grad school ended in an emotional break-down, not unlike one of an adolescent who came to a new school and had no friends. I sobbed to my husband that now that we left Utah […]

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